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Contents  Who was Tutankhamen? Who was Tutankhamen?  What is mummification? What is mummification?  What were hieroglyphics used for? What were hieroglyphics.

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1 Contents  Who was Tutankhamen? Who was Tutankhamen?  What is mummification? What is mummification?  What were hieroglyphics used for? What were hieroglyphics used for?  Glossary Glossary Click to return to contents.

2 Who was Tutankhamen? Tutankhamen became king when he was only 9 years old. Tutankhamen died suddenly when he was 19 years old. His tomb was discovered by a man called Howard Carter.tomb Ay one of his advisers/guardians became pharaoh straight after Tutankhamen died.pharaoh CAT scans in 2005 revealed that the king was about 5 foot,8 inches tall.

3 A mummy is the body of a person that has been preserved after death. After Tutankhamen died he was mummified and placed in a sarcophagus. It took a very long time to mummify someone body from start to finish. To have someone mummify you would cost you a lot of money. Click here for video During the process of mummification the embalmer would all the insides out and put them in canopic jars. What is mummification?

4 What were hieroglyphics used for? There were no vowels in Egyptian Hieroglyphs only consonants, so ‘Egyptians are Cool’ without vowels would be ‘Gyptns r Cl’ !!! The Egyptians used hieroglyphics to write with. Hieroglyphics were a form of pictures and symbols. Egyptian hieroglyphs could be written in both directions - right to left or left to right. Sometimes scribes used a faster short form of hieroglyphics on papyrus called hieratic.

5 Glossary Canopic jars: a canopic jar is a pot for the organs in the process of mummification Embalmer: Papyrus: Is a paper like material that egyptians used to write on Pharaoh: A pharaoh is someone who is in charge Sarcophagus: is a tomb with jewels on Tomb: A tomb is where they put people after the mummification process


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